What’s happening in Minnesota Today
Good morning, Minnesota. Happy Friday!
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🌞 Friday highs across southern Minnesota will push 80 degrees in the south with 70s sliding right up to the greater Twin Cities.
🌨️ A system will bring rain and snow to different areas Saturday into Sunday. In the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota, it will stay as rain but be snow to the north. Snowfall accumulations through Sunday will favor a band of between 2 to more than 6 inches.
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⚖️ Amid Feeding Our Future convictions, another nonprofit seeks reinstatement to food program. Of the 70 people charged in the Feeding Our Future case, none worked directly for Partners in Quality Care, which is also known as Partners in Nutrition. But federal investigators say in court filings that PIQC operated in a similarly fraudulent way.
🪩 Black dance festival highlights improvisation as performance, not process. The Black Dance Improvisation Festival in Minneapolis invites artists and audiences to see improvisation not just as a tool, but as a complete performance form rooted in Black cultural traditions.
🚅 Amtrak bringing in replacement rail cars, will resume Borealis train services. A spokesperson said passengers who booked business class tickets will be refunded the difference from the coach class price, because the replacement cars don’t support a business class.
🏥Hennepin Healthcare CEO Jennifer DeCubellis to step down in May. DeCubellis took the lead of the state’s biggest safety net hospital system in early 2020, just weeks before Minnesota confirmed its first cases of COVID-19.
🦝 Raccoon survives encounter with electrical transformer in Rochester. The incident knocked out power to a couple thousand homes and businesses in the northeast part of the city.
🎸 On new album, DIY punk band The Taxpayers seek solace during violent times. DIY punk band The Taxpayers channel personal loss, grief and a search for refuge into their new album “Circle Breaker,” written in the wake of the 2023 Nudieland shooting that killed their friend August Golden.
🪧 Minnesota employee unions threaten job actions after Walz back-to-office directive. Leaders with both the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Minnesota Council 5 want Gov. Tim Walz to rescind his requirement that employees return to the office at least 50 percent of the time.
🏛️ Minnesota lawyers say increased immigration enforcement is filling court rooms. Some of the people who’ve been detained have been charged with DUIs or domestic assaults. However, some in detention have no criminal background at all.
🥚 Egg shortage prompts more backyard chickens, but bird rescuer cautions prospective owners. Chicken Run Rescue is based out of the Twin Cities and says it is the oldest urban chicken rescue in the country. Its founder Mary Britton Clouse joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer on Morning Edition Thursday and said the birds have a “tough time ahead of them.”
🍄 Foragers want a seat at the rulemaking table as DNR mulls mushroom, berry bag limits. The DNR is considering bag limits on how much food people can take from state-managed lands. Right now, that proposal is a one-gallon maximum for foraging in state parks. |
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| — Sam Stroozas and Anna Haecherl, MPR News |
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